Norris at the Arsenal: March 1918, crowds drop, rationing, the war turns

  by Tony Attwood The war that was going to be over by Christmas 1914 was still laying waste to much of Western Europe in the spring of 1918, and killing its young men.  America was in the war, which helped the Allies, but French troops were wavering.  Russia was no longer in the war …

Recovering from cancer he made a joke about Tottenham and then we won 2-0.

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Our headline is taken from this day in 1980 17 November 1902: Woolwich Arsenal 2 Tottenham 1.  London League Premier Division.  The result saw Arsenal firmly in place at the top of the …